"Today, the greatest challenge that faces competitive business isn't
"having all the information," but knowing where to go to get it. The concept of a
single volume in which can be found information about the entire spectrum
of "what we know" about the Internet, from protocol structures to business
applications, is a concept whose time has not only come but is long
overdue. The Internet Encyclopedia provides a single, all-encompassing knowledge
source that will prove useful to anyone who works in the broad field of
telecommunications."
Steven Shepard
President, Shepard Communications Group
"In the fast moving world of technology, nothing moves faster than Internet technology. In order to keep up with where you are going tomorrow, you need to know where you are at today. The Internet Encyclopedia is vital to your understanding of this fast moving, pace setting technology."
Bill Inmon, partner, Inmon Enterprises
"The Internet Encyclopedia is exciting and long overdue. I was particularly interested in the sections on copyright law and cyber crime which are two subjects we get asked about at the reference desk. The encyclopedia appears to be an interesting mix of technical and non-technical articles which should broaden the appeal."
Abbie Landry
Head of Reference
Watson Library Northwestern State University of Louisiana
"If the Internet is the 21st century equivalent of the Great Library at Alexandria, The Internet Encyclopedia will become its card catalog. Comprehensive and complete, Professor Bidgoli has compiled an Indispensable guide to this valuable resource. Anyone who is serious about understanding the Internet will simply have to have this reference."
Dr. Peter Sealey
Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Haas School of Business
The University of California at Berkeley
Former Chief Marketing Officer, The Coca-Cola Company
"This landmark publication will be a tremendous resource for understanding the opportunities, challenges, and technologies brought forth by the Internet. A must have reference!"
Dr. Dorothy E. Denning
Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
Author, Information Warfare and Security
"In addition to many other current Internet topics, The Internet Encyclopedia provides a comprehensiveness view of the role that the Internet plays in supply chains and in business, and identifies a number of new challenges and opportunities that exist as the Internet continues to mature. The chapters identify many of the important theoretical contributions of recent authors, while providing some thought-provoking ideas on the role of the Internet in business and in our daily lives. The breadth of the coverage is such that both novices and professionals, academics and managers, students and professors, will discover useful information that can benefit their knowledge of how to think about the Internet. A great reference to have!"
Dr. Robert Handfield
Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
Director, Supply Chain Resource Consortium
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Operations Management
North Carolina State University
"The broad collection of helpful articles found in The Internet Encyclopedia will jump-start student and professional research work. This comprehensive coverage makes it an excellent starting point for research on a wide range of Internet-related technology, business and policy issues."
Sharon Eisner Gillett
Executive Director and Research Associate
MIT Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence
"From "Active server pages" to "XML," this is a compendium of (almost) everything you might want to know about the Internet. Besides technical topics, there is good coverage of many aspects of social behavior online, including renowned Harvard Professor Chris Dede's article on distance/virtual learning. Anyone who does research on the Internet will want to have a copy of this volume."
Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Distinguished Professor
College of Computing Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology
and author of The Network Nation
"The great strength about the Internet is that anybody and everybody can publish; that is also its great weakness. The Internet Encyclopedia provides a much-needed resource: a well-researched, well-edited, comprehensive, peer-reviewed guide/catalog/index/encyclopedia to help people understand how the Internet applies to their discipline or enterprise."
Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs
"The Internet Encyclopedia, featuring articles covering a vast diversity of issues ranging from legal, social, organizational and taxation issues to security issues and measures and from web marketing and advertising to wireless Internet technology, presented in a way suitable for use by virtually anyone, from students to professors and from novices to experienced professionals, contributed by world-renowned experts in their respective fields and quality-assured by rigorous peer reviews, is a remarkable contribution to the enhancement and diffusion of Internet-related knowledge, that everyone should have access to."
Dr. Sokratis K. Katsikas
Professor, Dept. of Information & Communication Systems Engineering
Vice-Rector for Finances & Development
University of the Aegean, Greece
Steven Shepard
President, Shepard Communications Group
"In the fast moving world of technology, nothing moves faster than Internet technology. In order to keep up with where you are going tomorrow, you need to know where you are at today. The Internet Encyclopedia is vital to your understanding of this fast moving, pace setting technology."
Bill Inmon, partner, Inmon Enterprises
"The Internet Encyclopedia is exciting and long overdue. I was particularly interested in the sections on copyright law and cyber crime which are two subjects we get asked about at the reference desk. The encyclopedia appears to be an interesting mix of technical and non-technical articles which should broaden the appeal."
Abbie Landry
Head of Reference
Watson Library Northwestern State University of Louisiana
"If the Internet is the 21st century equivalent of the Great Library at Alexandria, The Internet Encyclopedia will become its card catalog. Comprehensive and complete, Professor Bidgoli has compiled an Indispensable guide to this valuable resource. Anyone who is serious about understanding the Internet will simply have to have this reference."
Dr. Peter Sealey
Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Haas School of Business
The University of California at Berkeley
Former Chief Marketing Officer, The Coca-Cola Company
"This landmark publication will be a tremendous resource for understanding the opportunities, challenges, and technologies brought forth by the Internet. A must have reference!"
Dr. Dorothy E. Denning
Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
Author, Information Warfare and Security
"In addition to many other current Internet topics, The Internet Encyclopedia provides a comprehensiveness view of the role that the Internet plays in supply chains and in business, and identifies a number of new challenges and opportunities that exist as the Internet continues to mature. The chapters identify many of the important theoretical contributions of recent authors, while providing some thought-provoking ideas on the role of the Internet in business and in our daily lives. The breadth of the coverage is such that both novices and professionals, academics and managers, students and professors, will discover useful information that can benefit their knowledge of how to think about the Internet. A great reference to have!"
Dr. Robert Handfield
Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management
Director, Supply Chain Resource Consortium
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Operations Management
North Carolina State University
"The broad collection of helpful articles found in The Internet Encyclopedia will jump-start student and professional research work. This comprehensive coverage makes it an excellent starting point for research on a wide range of Internet-related technology, business and policy issues."
Sharon Eisner Gillett
Executive Director and Research Associate
MIT Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence
"From "Active server pages" to "XML," this is a compendium of (almost) everything you might want to know about the Internet. Besides technical topics, there is good coverage of many aspects of social behavior online, including renowned Harvard Professor Chris Dede's article on distance/virtual learning. Anyone who does research on the Internet will want to have a copy of this volume."
Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Distinguished Professor
College of Computing Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology
and author of The Network Nation
"The great strength about the Internet is that anybody and everybody can publish; that is also its great weakness. The Internet Encyclopedia provides a much-needed resource: a well-researched, well-edited, comprehensive, peer-reviewed guide/catalog/index/encyclopedia to help people understand how the Internet applies to their discipline or enterprise."
Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs
"The Internet Encyclopedia, featuring articles covering a vast diversity of issues ranging from legal, social, organizational and taxation issues to security issues and measures and from web marketing and advertising to wireless Internet technology, presented in a way suitable for use by virtually anyone, from students to professors and from novices to experienced professionals, contributed by world-renowned experts in their respective fields and quality-assured by rigorous peer reviews, is a remarkable contribution to the enhancement and diffusion of Internet-related knowledge, that everyone should have access to."
Dr. Sokratis K. Katsikas
Professor, Dept. of Information & Communication Systems Engineering
Vice-Rector for Finances & Development
University of the Aegean, Greece
